The only people who will be angry at you for speaking the truth based on real facts are ‎those who perpetuate a life of denial and deceit. Like a ray of sunshine through a crack ‎into a room filled with ignorance and fear, truth seeks out those who are righteous.‎ Y. M.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Yakov Churgin was born on the 23 of December 1899 (י' בטבת ה'תרנ"ט, 1899 - י"ז בשבט ה'תש"ן, 12
בפברואר 1990) and died February 12, 1990. He was the son of HaRav Shmuel Yitzhak Churgin and the
younger brother of Rachel Churgin wife of David Blick - a member of the 39th Royal Fusiliers - HaGdud Ha Evri from World War I.

Just as his father, Yakov Chugin was one of the first modern day Hebrew writers and authors. He was a founding member of the first Va'ad HaLashon. He was a teacher and editor of children's books and magazines during the early years in the history of the Yishuv and during the British Mandated Period. He was a professor of literature Hebrew at Bar - IlanUniversity. And in 1956 he was awarded the “Lamdan” Scholarship Prize.
He was born in Neve Tzedek or (Abode of Justice) a neighborhood located in southwestern Tel Aviv, Israel. It was the first Jewish neighborhood to be built outside the walls of the ancient port of Jaffa. He learned in the Talmud Torah "Sharei Torah" which was one of the first Hebrew speaking schools in Eretz Yisrael. Later, he studied at a "Midrash" -a college for teachers "Ezra" in Jerusalem, and taught in a "Girls" school Neve Shalom in Jerusalem.

During World War I he was drafted like many members of the Yishuv into the Turkish Army. His job in the Turkish Army was as interpreter of languages ​​Arabic, Turkish and a Liason between a Commander of an Imperial German Army engineering unit and the Turks. During the First World War he accompanied the commander of the German Unit throughout the land of Israel and its surroundings until 1917. With the fall of Jerusalem in the fall of 1917 to the British Army, he returned to Jerusalem.

From 1920 until 1930 he taught in Tiberias and during the years 1936 to 1939 he was chairman of the cultural committee of the Farmers' Association.

From 1952-1954 was a professor at YeshivaUniversity in New - York.
From 1955-1970 he served as a professor at Bar - IlanUniversity.

In the Fourth Knesset elections of 1959 he was a candidate
for office on the list of the General Zionist Party.
They merged with the right-wing Herut to form Gahal which later became the Likud.

During the early twenties he began publishing his poems and
stories in the journal "HaShiloch" and "Hapoel Hatzair ".
Churgin wrote a great deal of children's literature. He was an editor and
writer for the Pre-State of Israel
Farmers' Association.‎He
wrote many articles for newspapers for children and youth, one weekly magazine
that he wrote for belonged to the Farmers' Association. "בוסתנאי לנוער"
"The Young Gardener". He also wrote stories for the "הבֹ‏קר לילדים"
"The Morning Magazine for Youth".

In the center of Churgin's writings was the image of the "New
Jew" or "New Hebrew", who were born in the Land
of Israel during the "Yishuv"
(Settling of the land) and the (Pre-State
of Israel) Mandate For Palestine
period . The "Cultural roots" of the new Hebrew, Churgin wrote, are
derived from the ancient Hebrew culture in Eretz Yisrael that existed until the
revolt of Bar Kochba. He wrote that this new "Proud and Defiant Militarist Jew" will need
to act for the creation of the Jewish Homeland but within the constraints of the social and political circumstances of the British Mandate. Churgin urged and inspired the new modern Hebrew youth to act
as modern contemporaries of Bar Kochba, the leader of the second revolt against Rome. He taught them, "You will need to act as freedom fighters and revolutionaries
in order to achieve the State."
As an outcome of the bloody Arab riots of 1929 and the massacre in Hebron and as well with the murderous outpouring of Mufti inspired hatred in 1936. Churgin advocated for a more belligerent, assertive
posture with actions against both the occupying British and the belligerency of the Arabs during the "Arab Revolt
of 1936. He was a member of the ETZEL-the Irgun Zvai Leumi the pre-state Jewish underground. Because of Churgin's rejection
of "practical Zionism" expoused
by David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann and his "Revisionist" views he
was fired from his job as editor of "בוסתנאי לנוער"
"The Young Gardener".

During the Second World War and before the creation of the
state, Churgin wrote articles and stories of brave strong and defiant Jews. Be proud of your
heritage as those who resist tyranny and the new threat of Nazi anti-Semitism. His words inspired many children and young adults in the pre-State period
of the Mandate as well as among those living in Europe.

"His Revisionist views of the "Proud Jew" inspired
many among the young Jews. Among them was the Hebrew writer Ehud Ben Ezer - and according to
him many more. At his funeral in Feb 1990 at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetary
Professor Meir Feldblum Head of The Talmud Department of University Bar Ilan
spoke of the time of the Holocaust when he ran away at age 12 from the
Vilna Ghetto to join the Partisans of Abba Kovner in the forests. That
what inspired him and other young Jews to fight back and survive was
Yakov's book “The Young Zealots” (הקנאים הצעירים) that had been published in 1935.

Sadly this proud and defiant Jew who had been branded the "Revisionist" did not sit well with the Labor Party dominated young State of Israel. In his obituary (Seen above) by the newspaper Yediot Achronot he is labeled the writer "הסופר שנשכח והושכח" - The writer who was forgot and forgotten.

Yakov's research into modern Hebrew poets and poetry mainly
scholarly works on: Chaim Nachman Bialik, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Saul and David
Shimoni Tchernichovsky had been widely published.

Churgin also documented writings and publications dealing
with his childhood and youth, in Neve Tzedek, together with David Tidhar(1897 -1970) British policeman, private detective, author, and communal leader.
Yakov had based his book "הבלש משכונת הצריפים" The Detective From Tzrifin (The British Military base located near Rishon L'Zion) on his friend Tidhar.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Almost everyday now when I open my computer. I am confronted
by virulent deep disgustingly hate filled articles. reports and Tweets of anti-Semitism / anti-Jewish / anti-Israel and anti-Zionism on Facebook , Tweeter, Instagram and on
YouTube. We are reminded daily in Facebook and on Talkback areas that hatred, pure virulent hatred, racism and anti-Semitism are not dead.

The major purveyors of this virulent filth especially on YouTube are the same ones who committed the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.murder that
Sunday in 1963, the Klu Klux Klan.

The majority of the "White Extremist" hate on the Internet stems from David Ernest Duke, born July 1, 1950. He is an American "White nationalist", writer, right-wing politician, and a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Many of the narrations on some of the most far fetched and outlandish hateful, froth filled and venomous filth was completed by a William Luther Pierce III. Pierce was a prominent anti-Semite,
anti-Zionist and American (read Aryan) white nationalist (supremacist) an
associate ofGeorge Lincoln
Rockwell, founder of theAmerican Nazi Party.

Dukes has aligned himself with every venue of hatred of Jews and Zionism from ‎Iran, the Palestinians and Hezbollah. He is one of the chief sources of rabid anti-‎Semitism on the World Wide Web.‎ I have tried my best to "Flag" the videos and to report the "channels" to some success but YouTube is lax in their attempts to abide by the code to prevent "Hate Speech" as set forth by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR's) definition of hate speech. It states: "Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law". And the reasoning behind this is that the US Supreme Court in 1969 ruled in Brandenburg v. Ohio "that hate speech is permissible unless it will lead to imminent hate violence."

If anything should be outlawed and banned it should be the spreading of YouTube ‎videos of abject and ‎‎utter racial hatred narrated by William ‎‎Luther Pierce or David ‎Duke’s through the use of social media on the Internet to influence young naive ‎Americans and even Europeans.‎

All of my personal efforts to remove his films has had some partial success but these websites of utter hatred are constantly rebooted to other channels on YouTube and Facebook. In many cases they are linked to websites associated with the "Pro-Falestinians" and their trolls who use those unknowing of historical truth to spread their lies and utterly despicable gross misinterpretations of history.Prologue:

In the 1950s as the civil rights movement gained momentum local white supremacists led by members of the KKK reacted fiercely and violently. During this period Birmingham was known as “Bombingham” because of the numerous bombs set off at black churches and at homes of black activists — and attacks against whites who sought to upset the status quo.

Caught in the middle of all this was the relatively small Jewish community, which endured harsh anti-Semitic rhetoric by the Klan and white supremacists.

The Incident

On Sunday, September 15, 1963, four young African-American
girls, Addie Mae Collins (age 14), Denise McNair (age 11), Carole Robertson
(age 14), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14), were murder by the Klu Klux Klan in a
racially motivated act of terrorism in the bombing of the 16th Street
Baptist Church. Bobby Frank Cherry,
Thomas Blanton, Herman Frank Cash, and Robert Chambliss, members of United
Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group, planted the box of dynamite with a time
delay under the steps of the church, near the basement that murdered these
innocent children.

I was only ten years old and I was in Sunday school at
Temple Emanu-El on Highland Avenue
when the blast occurred at the Church. I can still remember that as a seven year old Jew and
a member of the kindergarten at Temple Beth-El in 1958. I nearly met the same fate as
those African-American children at the hands of those very same members of the Klu
Klux Klan.The same bombing method, used by Klansman Frank Cherry and his fellow Klansmen, in the
horrific bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963 was used in an attempted bombing by the Klu Klux
Klan five years earlier at Temple Beth-El on Sunday April 28, 1958.

The bomb was comprised of 54 sticks of dynamite bundled into a canvas satchel. It had been planted sometime in the darkness of
that early Monday morning, had been drenched in a heavy rain. Birmingham Police Investigators found that, due to the dampness
from the heavy rains, the 20-foot fuse had fizzled out with less than a minute before it would have detonated. I can only say is that the hand of God was definitely on our side that fateful day. The words "What if" is in my mind.

I remember how Karl “Bubba” Freidman and Sol Kimerling both related to me the story about the bomb found at Temple Beth-El. Both of them acknowledged that if the tremendously destructive bomb had gone off, the explosion would have
demolished TempleBeth-El
and done extensive damage to nearby structures. According to the Birmingham Police Investigators the bomb itself was three
times more powerful than the one that was used to kill the four young African-American
girls at the 16th StreetBaptistChurch in 1963!

On July of 1958 The Reverend
Martin Luther King, Jr had stated that; "Emboldened by the obvious lack of
prosecution for the 1956 bombing of the BethelBaptistChurch,
the dynamiters recently crossed the color line and(attempted to) bombed a Jewish Synagogue.”

King continues by stating;

"Prejudiced minds, may regard this lightly and try to
dismiss it as involving “only Negroes and Jews.” But this plague will surely
spread unless city and state officials take stern and vigorous action to ferret
out and punish both those who traffic in the sale of explosives for criminal
use and those who use them. No human lives have been destroyed, as yet; but
Divine Providence will not always intervene."

In my memory I can remember being hurriedly led out of the Kindergarten
building to the parking lot that morning. I remember the chill and the dampness as we were hurried out the side door after the temple's janitor, James
Pruitt, had found the bomb. It been planted in a basement window on the eastern wall of the school part of the
Temple. Just like the bomb at the 16th
StreetBaptistChurch five years later.

In a letter from my “Uncle Bubba” from the 20th of February 2006 he relayed
to me that his wife Glady’s sister Ida Mae Seligman and his daughter Lolly were
also in the Temple building. And
that how he knew that Klansman William Hugh Morris had informed Police Commissioner Eugene“Bull” Connor that white supremacist lawyer Jesse Benjamin "J.B."Stoner was behind the bombing attempt. J. B. Stoner was an unapologetic racist and virulent anti-Semite whose conviction for bombing a church, divisive political campaigns and
vituperation's about Jews and blacks made him a benchmark for racial extremism
in the United States.
Stoner had once said that "being a Jew [should] be a crime punishable by
death"

In his letter“Uncle Bubba” relayed to me, how he went to speak at a
memorial service for the African-American Civil Rights Lawyer Arthur Shores "Bubba" wrote how he
had gone through the civil rights struggles together at the same time and that many Jews were involved in the march for civil rights.

The two most outstanding points of An Appeal for Law and
Order and Common Sense in my opinion are:

That hatred and violence have no sanction in our religious
and political traditions.

That no person's freedom is safe unless every person's
freedom is equally protected

I can remember Rabbi Grafman urging us at Temple
Emanu-El not to give in to fear in a city suffering from moral apathy:

"You cannot yield to terror and violence….If you yield once you yield a second
time [and] you yield a third time. And then there is nothing more to yield…you
have already been captured."“I’m just sick at heart as you are about what’s happened in
our city. I have been sick about it for years. Anybody with a shred of humanity
in him could not have been but horrified by what happened Saturday or Sunday.”"And I’m sick at heart for a lot of other reasons. I’m sick
at heart because of the attitude not of the people who either by direction or
indirection were responsible for the death of those children…I’m sick at heart
because of what the so-called nice people…the liberals … that sneer at
everything that happens put the blame upon everyone but themselves. I am sick
at heart (at) their attitude also. I am sick of and tired of finger pointing. I
am weary of reasons and rationalizations. And I am weary of people congregating
in their homes and their places of business over their coffee, wherever they
may be…I answer to my conscience. You’ll have to answer to yours.”

Above all I remember Rabbi Grafman's words from the pulpit that September 19th RoshHashana morning in 1963:

“And let me say these people are primarily anti-Semitic and
this is where you have got a stake. Because let me tell you, if they get away
with this, nobody’s going to be safe and the first ones that will not be safe,
will be the members of the Jewish community…”

He never was more right than what he stated here.Epilogue:
I was recently made aware of an excellent article in the Southern Jewish life Magazine with an indepth and comprehensive background of that sad period in American history, the letter by Martin Luther King and the harsh unjust criticism of Rabbi Grafman's response at that time. Specifically from those who did not know the whole truth and background of the whole affair. Rabbi Grafman was a giant among humanitarians and few know of his works and efforts on the part of the community.

Friday, September 6, 2013

In light of the continuing "fall out" from the abject failure of President Obama administrations "Foreign Affairs"dealings, more specifically the "Iran Deal". Several people from both sides of the political isle have leveled accusations
at one another concerning the Bush administrations haste in invading Iraq
because of Saddam Hussein’s Weapons of Mass Destruction. Those who back President Obama
claim that there were none to begin with in Iraq.
I will not argue I will simply state facts.

Did Saddam Hussein and Iraq
have a nuclear bomb?

August 17, 1959USSR
and Iraq wrote
an agreement about building a nuclear power plant and established a
nuclear program as part of their mutual understanding.

In 1968 a Soviet supplied IRT-2000
research reactor together with a number of other facilities that could be
used for radioisotope production was built close to Baghdad.

In
1975 Saddam Hussein arrived in Moscow
and asked about building an advanced model of an atomic power station. Moscow
informed Saddam that it would approve the station only if it was regulated
by the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iraq refused. Even though Iraq
refused an agreement of co-operation was signed, which superseded the one
from 1959.

In
1976 Paris agreed to sell 72 kg of 93% Uranium and built a
nuclear power plant without International Atomic Energy Agency control at
a price of $3 billion.

In
1980 the United States Commerce department approved $500 million worth of
dual use exports to support Iraq during the Iran– Among them were advanced
computers, some of which were used in Iraq's nuclear program.

Operation
Opera, also known as Operation Babylon, was a surprise Israeli air strike
carried out on 7 June 1981
against Iraq's
unfinished Osiraq nuclear reactor some 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) southeast of Baghdad,
Iraq. The facility
was destroyed, killing ten Iraqi soldiers and one French researcher.

In
March 1990, a
case of nuclear triggers bound for Iraq,
were seized at HeathrowAirport
in to what was called the Arms-to-Iraq affair.

Did Saddam Hussein and Iraq
have chemical Weapons?

In
1980 the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency filed a report stating that Iraq
had been actively acquiring chemical weapons capacities for several years.

The
non-profit American Type Culture Collection and the Centers for Disease
Control sold or sent biological samples of anthrax, West Nile
virus and botulism to Iraq
up until 1989, which Iraq
claimed it needed for "medical research". A number of these
materials were used for Iraq's
biological weapons research program.

In
1984 the CIA secretly started providing intelligence to the Iraqi army
during the Iran-Iraq War. This included information to target chemical
weapons strikes. The same year it was confirmed beyond doubt by European
doctors and UN expert missions that Iraq
was employing chemical weapons against the Iranians.

On March 23, 1988Iraq
had launched a large scale chemical assault on Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan
7,000 people had been killed and 20,000 wounded.

Between
1991 and 1998, UN inspectors conducted more than 70 inspections into Iraq's
biological warfare activities. In its 1999 final report to the U.N. Security
Council, UNSCOM noted that Iraq's
biological warfare program was "among the most secretive of its
programs of weapons of mass destruction." It said that Iraq
"took active steps" to conceal the program, including "inadequate
disclosures, unilateral destruction, and concealment activities." Therefore,
the Commission concluded, "it has not been possible to verify" Iraq's
statements about the extent and nature of its biological weapons program.

I had written the following information on October 27, 2007 -
in a Blog “How to destroy a hard site” in the aftermath of the
resounding silence from Syria after the devastating attack on
September 6th, 2007 by Israeli Air Force F-15 and F-16s conducted on
targets deep inside Syria near the city of Dayr az-Zawr. This
facility and it’s surrounding underground storage facilities was constructed
for the storage of Iraq's WMD chemical/bio weapons for safekeeping in Syria prior
to the US invasion of April 2003.

The site described by the experts is a bunker built
into the side of the wadi/valley at 25 42'24 74 N 39 49'57 92E is atypical of a
hardened bunker for weapons storage it is not only a Nuclear site.

Now here are two satellite images. These are two existing
Nuclear facilities are based on North Korean plans. Compare them with the site found
at 35 11'57 91N 40 05'01 24E.

The outstanding question in the after math of the attack
was; "Why would the Syrian government be so tight-lipped about an act
of war perpetrated on their soil?"

The first half of the answer lay in a story that appeared in the Israeli media
on the 13th of August 2007
concerning “Syria's
Antiaircraft System Most Advanced in World”. Syria had
gone on a profligate buying spree, spending vast sums on Russian systems,
"considered the cutting edge in aircraft interception technology."
And as the story continued; Syria now
"possesses the most crowded antiaircraft system in the world," with
"more than 200 antiaircraft batteries of different types," some
of which are so new that they have been installed in Syria "before
being introduced into Russian operation service."

Now take a look at a map of Syria:

Notice how far away Dayr az-Zawr is from Israel.
An F15/16 attack there was no tiptoe across the border, but a deep and very
long penetration into Syrian airspace. And guess what happened with the
Russian super-hyper-sophisticated cutting edge antiaircraft missile batteries
when the Israeli aircraft penetrated so deep into Syrian airspace? Nothing,
nothing at all but total resounding Silence. The "elite" Russian
made systems didn't even light up nor gave any indication whatsoever of
any detection of enemy aircraft invading Syrian airspace. The Israelis had
blinded the Russian antiaircraft detection systems so completely the Syrians
didn't even know they were blinded this in itself was an an incredible
success.

After the attack retired military officials indicated that a
technology like the U.S.-developed “Suter” airborne network attack system
developed by BAE Systems and integrated into U.S. Unmanned aircraft by L-3
Communications was used by the Israelis. The system has been used or at least
tested operationally in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The technology allows users to invade communications networks, see what enemy
sensors see and even take over as systems administrator so sensors can be
manipulated into positions so that approaching aircraft can’t be seen, they
say. The process involves locating enemy emitters with great precision and then
directing data streams into them that can include false targets and misleading
messages algorithms that allow a number of activities including control.

A Kuwaiti newspaper wrote that "Russian experts were studying
why the two state-of-the art Russian-built radar systems in Syria did
not detect the Israeli jets entering Syrian territory. Iran reportedly
has asked the same question, since it is buying the same systems and might have
paid for the Syrian acquisitions."

The system in question is thought to be the new Tor-M1
launchers which carry eight missiles as well as two of the Pachora-2A system. Iran bought
29 of the Tor launchers from Russia for
$750 million to guard its nuclear sites, and they were delivered in Jan.,
according to Agency France-Press and ITAR-TASS. Syrian press reports they were
tested in February 2007. They also are expected to form a formidable system
when used with the longer-range S-300/SA-10 which Iran has
been trying to buy from Russia. Syria has
operated SA-6s for years and more recently has been negotiating with Russians
for the Tor-M1. What systems were actually guarding the Syrian site are not known.

The conclusion of this story was that the highly successful Israeli Airforce operation
left not only the Syrians and Russians speechless but it scared the
"Beegesus" out of the Iranians. They thought they were protected - at
an enormous expense - only to discover they are defenseless. All of this caused Tehran to panic.

How was the attack done and what were the implications to Iran?

The U.S. Military has developed several different weapons to
attack these underground fortresses. Known as bunker busters, these bombs
penetrate deep into the earth or right through a dozen feet of reinforced
concrete before exploding. These bombs have made it possible to reach and
destroy facilities that would have been impossible to attack otherwise

During the 1991 Gulf war, allied forces knew of several underground military
bunkers in Iraq that
were so well reinforced and so deeply buried that they were out of reach of
existing munitions. The U.S. Air Force started an intense research and
development process to create a new bunker-busting bomb to reach and destroy
these bunkers. In just a few weeks, a prototype was created. This new bomb had
the following features:

Its casing consists of an approximately 16-foot (5-meter)
section of artillery barrel that is 14.5 inches (37 cm) in diameter. Artillery barrels
are made of extremely strong hardened steel so that they can withstand the
repeated blasts of artillery shells when they are fired.

Inside this steel casing is nearly 650 pounds (295 kg) of tritonal explosive.
Tritonal is a mixture of TNT (80 percent) and aluminum powder (20 percent). The
aluminum improves the brisance of the TNT -- the speed at which the explosive
develops its maximum pressure. The addition of aluminum makes tritonal about 18
percent more powerful than TNT alone.

Attached to the front of the barrel is a laser-guidance
assembly. Either a spotter on the ground or in the bomber illuminates the
target with a laser, and the bomb homes in on the illuminated spot. The guidance
assembly steers the bomb with fins that are part of the assembly.

Attached to the end of the barrel are stationary fins that
provide stability during flight.

Busting a Bunker

From the description in the previous section, you can see
that the concept behind bunker-busting bombs like the GBU-28 is nothing but
basic physics. You have:

An extremely strong tube that is:

Very narrow for its weight

Extremely heavy

The bomb is dropped from an airplane so that this tube
develops a great deal of speed, and therefore kinetic energy, as it falls. When
the bomb hits the earth, it is like a massive nail shot from a nail gun. In
tests, the GBU-28 has penetrated 100 feet (30.5 meters) of earth or 20
feet (6 meters)
of concrete.

In a typical mission, intelligence sources or
aerial/satellite images reveal the location of the bunker. A GBU-28 is loaded
into a B2 Stealth bomber, an F-111 or similar aircraft. The bomber flies near the target, the target is illuminated
and the bomb is dropped.

The GBU-28 has in the past been fitted with a delay fuse
(FMU-143) so that it explodes after penetration rather than on impact. There
has also been a good bit of research into smart fuses that, using a
microprocessor and an accelerometer, can actually detect what is happening during
penetration and explode at precisely the right time. These fuses are known as
hard target smart fuses (HTSF). The GBU-27/GBU-24 (aka BLU-109) is nearly identical to the
GBU-28, except that it weighs only 2,000 pounds (900 kg). It is less expensive to
manufacture, and a bomber can carry more of them on each mission.

Operation Orchard (Hebrew: מבצע בוסתן‎, Mivtza bustan) was an Israeli airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria, which occurred just after midnight (local time) on September 6, 2007. The Israeli and U.S. governments imposed virtually total news blackouts immediately after the raid that held for seven months. The White House and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) subsequently confirmed that American intelligence had also indicated the site was a nuclear facility with a military purpose, though Syria denies this. A 2009 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigation reported evidence of uranium and graphite and concluded that the site bore features resembling an undeclared nuclear reactor. IAEA was initially unable to confirm or deny the nature of the site because, according to IAEA, Syria failed to provide necessary cooperation with the IAEA investigation. Syria has disputed these claims. Nearly five years later, in April 2011, the IAEA officially confirmed that the site was a nuclear reactor.

Mossad (Hebrew: הַמוֹסָד‎, IPA: [ha moˈsad]; Arabic: الموساد‎, al-Mōsād; literally meaning "the Institute"), short for HaMossad leModiʿin uleTafkidim Meyuḥadim (Hebrew: המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים‎, meaning "Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations"; Arabic: الموساد للاستخبارات والمهام الخاصة‎ al-Mōsād lil-Istikhbārāt wal-Mahāmm al-Khāṣṣah), is the national intelligence agency of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security).

One report stated that a team of elite Israeli "Shaldag" special-forces commandos arrived at the site the day before so that they could highlight the target with laser designators, while a later report identified Sayeret Matkal special-forces commandos as involved.

Sayeret Matkal (Hebrew: סיירת מטכ"ל‎, General Staff Reconnaissance Unit) is a special forces unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). First and foremost a field intelligence-gathering unit, conducting deep reconnaissance behind enemy lines to obtain strategic intelligence, Sayeret Matkal is also tasked with counter-terrorism and hostage rescue beyond Israel's borders. The unit is modeled after the British Army's Special Air Service, taking the unit's motto "Who Dares Wins". It is directly subordinate to the IDF's Directorate of Military Intelligence.

Sunday, September 1, 2013

The first meaning is of a point (physical, decisional, etc.)
beyond which one will proceed no further.

The second meaning is that of a point beyond which, once the
decision to go beyond it is made, the decision and its resulting consequences
are permanently decided and irreversible.

It is generally believed that if someone should “cross the
line” than their behavior is wrong and not socially acceptable. The recent use
by President Assad of chemical weapons, whose use was banned in warfare by a
1925 international treaty, does indeed cross a line, into a sort of brutality
so extreme that the civilized world cannot afford to tolerate it.

President Obama left his proverbial “fly open” by
making multiple “Line in the sand” threats against Bashar Assad to end the civil
war in Syria. President
Obama's lack of an immediate and swift military response not only
embarrassed himself but has made a mockery of his administration as well.

This bloody civil war has been raging for more than two
years and has claimed more than 100,000 civilian casualties, many of them women
and children in atrocities that shock the conscience. President Obama’s failure
to enact his threats to stop this bloodshed has stained all brave Americans
with cowardice. It is hoped by many American's that after President Obama
speech that he has come to the conclusion to never make a threat if you cannot
willingly carry it out. As President he needs to know that; "When
placed in command — take charge." And that "Leadership is a potent
combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, do
without the strategy."

Like some spoiled grade school kid to the school bully he
threatened President
Bashar Assad, of "Red Lines" and than he stepped back, again and
again. The people of the world and the Middle East now
know that the US which
was once feared by evil leaders as the "most powerful Democracy" is
in reality a weak kneed "Paper Lion".

From my own personal experience in life I agree with the
words of the late Four Star General and Commander-in-Chief of U.S.
Central Command of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991 H.
NormanSchwarzkopf, Jr. that; “Any soldier worth his salt should be
antiwar.” And that;

"A professional soldier understands that war means
killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without
fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in
your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out
and you can’t do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war.”

As an Israeli I will reiterate that I personally do not want
the US to
get involved in Syria because
most Americans do not have the faintest idea of what makes up the Middle
East. The most glaring example of American ineptitude by the US
in the Middle East occurred thirty years ago on October 23, 1983 during the Lebanese
Civil War in the Beirut
Barracks Bombings incident. Suicide bombers from the 'Islamic
Jihad' drove two trucks laden with 9,525
kg (21,000
pounds) of TNT into separate buildings housing United
States and French military forces—members of the Multinational Force (MNF) in
Beirut,Lebanon.

This single attack represented the deadliest single-day
death toll for the US Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War
II, the deadliest single-day death toll for the United
States military since the first day of the
Vietnam War's Tet Offensive, and the deadliest single attack on Americans
overseas since World War One.

All told 299 American and French servicemen were
murdered—241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers,
along with 60 injured. A then obscure group calling itself 'Islamic Jihad' led
by Imad Mughniyah,a non-"Falestinian" Lebanese Shiite member of Palestinian Fatah’s Force 17 claimed responsibility
for the bombing. This same Imand Mughniyah who was responsible for the deaths of many Americans was a founder and a senior member of Lebanon's Hezbollah.

It is because of this continuing ineptitude of the US
Intelligence Departments and the State Department that I stand firmly behind
the fact that Americans should not get involved and to sacrifice their kids for
either side in the quagmire that the Syrian Civil War has become. Especially in
light of it’s two warring fractions that I term "Bad" or "Even
Worst".

It is my fervent wish; I hope it is yours too, for them to
murder each other in droves. The “Pro Assad” "Secular" Baath regime
is being backed by the fanatically religious Shi'ite regime of Iran and
their Lebanese lackeys the Hezbollah. The rebels are a confused mixture with a
new and odious vicious group The
Chechnian Al Qaeda.

This particularly vicious radical and fanatical Sunni Moslem religious
group is involved in the fighting and they are getting stronger. For the moment
they are fighting against the forces of Assad and the Hezbollah. And for once I
actually agree with Russian
President Vladimir Putkin and with the Ruskies that as long as
the Al Qaeda’s Chechen, Caucasian fighters are getting killed and the Hezbollah are being
killed we should be immensely thankful! As my Christian Lebanese friends say;
“Inshallah may they continue!”

As an American, President Obama is right on the count that
he needs to know that at least the US Congress will back him up. When the US
Congress reconvenes I think that it is about time that all US voters/taxpayers
wipe the smirk smiles off those Arab faces. Use this “Golden Opportunity” to
take immediate action to bombard your representatives, congressmen and Senators
to wake up and cut off ALL foreign aid to ALL Arab countries, the UN and
especially UNWRA!!!

IF the Arabs are “Laughing” at the USA than
Let them “foot” the bill LITERALLY. After all the billions if not trillions in
US Tax dollars spent on saving the wrong guy in Arab countries over the years.
It is time for the Arabs primarily Saudi Arabia -YOUR "US Gas Dollars at work" to police the area. AND the USA should
demand repayment! I ask;"Why should you Americas spend
your hard owned tax dollars to protect the lavish lifestyles of the Saudi
Princes?" And what do YOU the US Taxpayer's have to say to this? Did I hear any
of you writing your congressman about cutting US Aid to the Arabs? I mean wouldn't it be nice to get back the TRILLIONS wasted
on protecting Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Gulf State Emirates to pay for
America schools, Health Care and aging infrastructure?

American naiveté of the Middle East can
be further witnessed in an interview to Al Arabiya, few days after his
inauguration, Obama declared: "my job to the Muslim world is to
communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. President Obama in his
infamous "A New Beginning" speech in Cairo in
June of 2009 embarrassed himself and the American people by trying to
"make up" with the Arabs of the World. At that time that Egypt was
chosen as the place for the speech because as White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stated; "it is
a country that in many ways represents the heart of the Arab world.”

President Obama and his adviser's fiasco of not
comprehending the Middle East is further exasperated in
his lauding of the "Election" of the Moslem Brotherhood
leadership in President Morsi and his ostracizing the Egyptian Military leader General Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi. The moderate mainly secular middle class youth who led the
protests in Tahrir Square, in
what the imbeciles of the BBC and CNN termed the "Arab Spring" protests,
brought the Moslem
Brotherhood into power. The "romance" with the
"Democratic" removal of President Hosni Mubarak seemed a clear
message from the White House.

Though the Army had supported Mubarak through his
decades-long rule, it became increasingly clear that the Moslem
Brotherhood had the best political operation and would likely win the
popular vote in the elections of 2012 Ever-pragmatic businessmen, the military
officers realized that they had to negotiate with their erstwhile enemies, to
protect their own institutions, perks, and bank accounts, they would have to
step in on the side of the protesters of the "Arab Spring"
against Mubarak. When Morsi turned autocratic and the Brotherhood subverted the
popular will, Egypt received
little in support from the U.S.

The extremely fanatical Islamic fundamentalist group
which had been outlawed by the Egyptians, who knew what they were all about, was
released from its’ “Pandora box”. Suddenly they took over as the Nazis did
through “Democratic” elections because the Moderate and seculars “thought they
had the elections in the bag” they had not realized that the Moslem Brotherhood
out numbered them. These Sixth Century backward uneducated Islamic
religious fanatics began to reverse Egypt,
like Iran in
1979.

“Luckily” the Egyptian military leadership reversed all this
is their military putsch. And for once it was a military Junta that took
control to bring sanity back to what was once a close ally to the US.
Egyptian General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi rationalized the military putsch he
helped orchestrate to depose Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood
ideologue Muhammad Morsi by saying:

The dilemma between the former president [Muhammad Morsi] and
the people originated from [the Muslim Brotherhood’s] concept of the state, the
ideology that they adopted for building a country, which is based on restoring
the Islamic religious empire [El Kalifa or Califate (Caliphate) ]. That’s what
made [Mohamed Morsi] not a president for all Egyptians but a president
representing his followers and supporters.

Egyptian General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi‎
wrote that “The Conception of Democracy from [an] Islamic Perspective,”
articulates his wide world perception of ideas and beliefs as follows:

Democracy, as a secular entity, is unlikely to be favorably
received by the vast majority of Middle Easterners, who are devout followers of
the Islamic faith.…Although concerns exist, for the most part, the spirit of
democracy, or self-rule, is viewed as a positive endeavor so long as it builds
up the country and sustains the religious base, versus devaluing religion and
creating instability.

Democracy cannot be understood in the Middle East
without an understanding of the concept of El Kalafa [the Caliphate]. El Kalafa
dates back to the time of the Prophet Muhammad. During his life and the seventy
year period that followed the ideal state of El Kalafa existed as a way of life
among the people and within the governing bodies. This period of time is viewed
as a very special period and is considered the ideal form of government and it
is widely recognized as the goal for any new form of government very much in
the manner that the U.S.
pursued the ideals of “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.” From the
Middle Eastern perspective, the defining words governing their form of
democracy would likely reflect “fairness, justice, equality, unity and charity.”

But President Obama and his advisors once again have shown
their ignorance by siding with the “Democratically Elected” Mohamed Morsi while
ostracizing the Egyptian Military leader General AbdelFattah
al-Sisi. As he bluntly told The Washington Post in a rare recent interview:
“You turned your back on the Egyptians, and they won’t forget that.”

Since the overthrow of the Moslem Brotherhood and Morsi in Egypt
and the cut off of US funds, the Sunni royals of the Gulf
States, who have their own agenda in Egypt, have
secured billions of dollars in aid from Saudi
Arabia and the United
Arab Emirates. President Obama and the US
rejection of the “Military Junta” has so angered the Egyptians that the
Egyptian Minister of Defense recently stated that “No (US) warship has the
right to pass through the Suez Canal to attack Syria”

I seriously doubt that President Obama’s “advisors” are
aware that Al-Sisi was selected to attend the U.S. Army War College in 2006 during
a severely traumatic period in the Middle East—for
Americans as well as for Arabs. It was while at the WarCollege,
al-Sisi wrote an 11-page academic paper titled “Democracy in the Middle
East.”

In his paper he pointed out the influence of Christianity
and its culture on American government, especially in its early days, drawing a
parallel with the role of Islam now in the establishment of nascent Middle
Eastern democracies. Al-Sisi wrote that whereas;

It is
ironic that in this paper he states that “this does not mean a theocracy will
be established,” wrote al-Sisi, “rather it means a democracy will be
established based on Islamic beliefs.”

And another fact to note is that since the Camp
David peace accords 1978 more than $1.4 billion a year from
the United States pours
into the coffers of the Egyptian military. This policy, which originates back
in the days of British Imperial involvement in the nineteenth century, was
meant to keep its officers and soldiers loyal because the Egyptian military
pays out rich dividends to them. The military draws on recruits from all levels
of Egyptian society. Egypt
historically has been a state habitually plagued by nepotism and corruption. As
officers move up the ranks, they move ever-more deeply into a world
intentionally isolated from the rest of the country. They have their own
apartments, their own clubs, their own schools and stores. The Army has its own
manufacturing empire and a vast construction business that frequently shuts out
the private sector in bids for contracts with little or no public
accountability.

As to the embarrassing fall of our once staunch ally in the United
Kingdom. The vote in the English House of
Commons shows not only the war weariness of the English people but it is a
warning bell to the people of England and Europe of the spread and rise in
population of their Moslem constituents and their growing political power from
within.

The quagmire we live in today vis a vis the Arab world is a
direct outcome of those who still cannot comprehend the hidden agenda and rise
of post 9/11 radical Islam and the inner warfare between the two sects Shiism
and Sunni.

Since taking office, Obama stated his support for the creation
of a "Falestinian" state and announced that he would engage
in negotiations with Iran.
He also declared he opposed Israeli settlements and wanted to revive
"Falestinian" peace talks. The two examples of Syria
and Egypt, that
I have presented above show exactly why the US
pressure on Israel
is so wrong. Binyamin Netanyahu’s six-year old policy, which was oriented on engendering
understanding with Barack Obama, is in ruins as Bibi now has to wipe egg off
his face.

And of course yet again we in Israel have
been left holding the proverbial bag and have been put in a tight spot on three
counts:

1. The hostile Iran-Syrian-Hezbollah bloc comes
out strengthened;

2. Tehran can
feel free to develop a nuclear bomb without fear of resolute US interference;

3. Hezbollah can celebrate its backing for the winning
horse in Damascus.

In the meantime “Wile E. Coyote” aka Bashar Assad and his
Iranian partners now have all the time in the world to line up their counter
moves. And we will continue to hear the laughter from the whole Arab world of
what a total fool and weak leader the US has.